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Company IT budgets is shrinking. Even in strong economic times, CIO's had a hard time with budgeting for new resources, let alone in today's uncertain economic climate. There comes a time that every business thinks about how they can save money and reduce expenses for hardware, software and data centers. If you find yourself in this same position now, don't fear you're not alone. There is help out there. Digitalbucket is one step ahead of the marketplace. We are driving innovation and helping companies address their IT budgeting concerns with cost effective, innovative solutions.

Our innovation is built on top of the Amazon Web Services clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform "in the cloud".

This efficiency translates into delivering lower cost services to our Customers. We are spending our time and efforts innovating features; not worrying about the expansion and maintenance of our data centers. On the other hand, our competitors are struggling and burning through their precious capital to keep their data centers alive. We have seen many of these services closure in the past few months.

We're adding small and big customers in virtually every industry - Media, Engineering, Consumer Retail, Non Profit and Financial Services. More and more businesses are realizing the benefits of cloud computing and replacing cumbersome technologies like FTP Servers and costly hosted services like Microsoft SharePoint with on-demand hassle free subscriptions based services like digitalbucket.net.

We are moving forward strong and are happy that we are part of this industry transition. Expect more and more innovations in the months ahead.

"CEOs are putting tremendous pressure on CIOs to lower their traditional enterprise software maintenance fees. They're asking them not to build new data centers. They're asking them not to buy more hardware and software and are giving them very modest CapEx budgets because they just don't have the credit to be able to extend to the CIO for these large purchases."

Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO, Marc Beniaoff

- Greg

File locking is a way of ensuring the integrity of the files. It allows many users to share a file in a safe way, without overwriting each other's work. If only one user is working on a file, file locking is not needed and there is no need to worry about anybody else changing it. However, when a single file is trying to be changed by two or more users, conflicts can arise, and some sort of file locking is needed.

I am excited to announce the Release of this useful feature. This feature will help our Businesses customers to collaborate on files safely. The locking feature works across the Web File Manager, WebDAV and the API. In other words, if the file is open from WebDAV, the file will be shown as "locked" in the Web File Manger. Or, if the file is opened in the Web interface using zoho, the other user connected to the his/her account using WebDAV won’t be able to edit the file. If the file is locked, the other user can still open the file as read only.

This feature is available for Business and Enterprise accounts.

-Greg